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Courting Science : Securing the Foundation for a Second American Century / Damon V. Coletta.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Stanford Security studiesPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804798969
  • 0804798966
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Courting science.DDC classification:
  • 338.973/06 23
LOC classification:
  • Q127.U6 C625 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
A Second American Century -- Science and the Hegemon : Speaking Truth to Power -- Power, Polarity, and Hegemony in the Twenty-first Century -- Science and the American State : Mobilizing Democracy -- Science and Diplomacy : U.S. Hegemony and the Rise of the Rest -- Science and Global Governance at the Final Frontier -- Science, Grand Strategy, and Prospects for American Influence.
Summary: "In Courting Science, Damon Coletta offers a novel explanation for the decline of American leadership in world affairs. Whether the American Century ends sooner rather than later may depend on America's capacity for self-reflection and, ultimately, self-restraint when it comes to science, technology, and engineering. Democracy's affinity for advanced technology has to be balanced against scientific research and progress as a global enterprise. In an era of rising challengers to America's lead in the international order and an increasingly globalized civil society, a "Scientific State" has a better chance of extending its dominance. In order to draw closer to this ideal, though, the United States will have to reconsider its grand strategy. It must have a strategy that scrutinizes how tightly it constrains, how narrowly it directs, and how far it trusts American scientists. If given the opportunity, scientists have the potential to lead a second American Century through domestic science and technology policy, international diplomacy, and transnational networks for global governance."--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Second American Century -- Science and the Hegemon : Speaking Truth to Power -- Power, Polarity, and Hegemony in the Twenty-first Century -- Science and the American State : Mobilizing Democracy -- Science and Diplomacy : U.S. Hegemony and the Rise of the Rest -- Science and Global Governance at the Final Frontier -- Science, Grand Strategy, and Prospects for American Influence.

Print version record.

"In Courting Science, Damon Coletta offers a novel explanation for the decline of American leadership in world affairs. Whether the American Century ends sooner rather than later may depend on America's capacity for self-reflection and, ultimately, self-restraint when it comes to science, technology, and engineering. Democracy's affinity for advanced technology has to be balanced against scientific research and progress as a global enterprise. In an era of rising challengers to America's lead in the international order and an increasingly globalized civil society, a "Scientific State" has a better chance of extending its dominance. In order to draw closer to this ideal, though, the United States will have to reconsider its grand strategy. It must have a strategy that scrutinizes how tightly it constrains, how narrowly it directs, and how far it trusts American scientists. If given the opportunity, scientists have the potential to lead a second American Century through domestic science and technology policy, international diplomacy, and transnational networks for global governance."--Back cover.

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